Note
This article applies to the following products:
- Imagine Language & Literacy, Imagine Español, Imagine Reading, and Imagine Lectura
- Imagine Galileo K–12
- Imagine MyPath, Imagine Science Corner, Imagine Purpose
Rostering is often done at the school or district level, and Administrators usually decide which type of rostering your organization will use. The Help Center contains detailed instructions for each type of initial rostering—self-managed, assisted, or automated.
Recommendation
Check with an administrator if you're unsure whether you need to roster your own students or if your students will be rostered for you.
The Help Center contains information on initial rostering as well as how to view accounts and make changes after initial rostering is complete. This can include:
- editing student accounts and resetting student passwords
- changing the language settings in student accounts
- assigning or unassigning product access to students
- adding new educator and student accounts individually for users who join your school or district as the year progresses
These instructions are located in 2 places within the Help Center because they correspond to 2 sets of tools in the Product Portal. With both sets of tools, you have the option to roster in bulk via file upload or create/edit/delete records one at a time using the in-product tools.
Note
With each rostering action you take, you can decide which set of tools you prefer to use. The tools do not override each other, and you don't need to use one set exclusively throughout the school year. However, as of early September 2024, the ability to perform the following actions is available only in the Legacy tools:
- Print login cards
- Perform bulk edits and deletions of students, educators, and classes/groups
- Ability to add students to classes/groups upon initial creation of the student accounts
These abilities will be added to the new rostering tools as the school year progresses. In addition, a brand-new feature will be added to allow you to download CSV files of student, educator, and class/group information.
The New Manual Rostering Experience section of the Help Center corresponds to the Users & Classes/Groups button in the Product Portal. The new rostering experience was launched in the summer of 2024 and provides a streamlined experience to work with classes/groups and student accounts.
The New Manual Rostering Experience section in the Help Center looks similar to this:
The 4 Self-Managed Rostering sections in the Help Center correspond to the Legacy Rostering Tools in the Product Portal. The legacy tools are the original manual rostering tools. For a time, these tools will coexist with the new tools for those of you who prefer to use a rostering method with which you're already familiar.
The Self-Managed Rostering sections look similar to this:
Caution
If your school uses a Student Information System (SIS) that syncs regularly with Imagine Learning, all new students should be added to the SIS and their information will be sent to Imagine Learning on the next file, thereby creating their account. You should only add students individually if your school performs self-managed or one-time assisted rostering.
The same is true for many types of account edits—the changes must be made in the SIS and this will carry over to the Imagine Learning products via file synchronization. In fact, for SIS customers, certain fields will be locked from editing within the Imagine Learning products.
Fields without a lock may be updated within the program at any time.